[SPOILERS]Novice, Spacemanmf and Athlete4life10 are HUYANA CAPAC OF CHINA

[spacemanmf]

So the tech plan is Rifling, natch, then probably Compass-Optics, cheap techs to enable Caravels and whale netting for 2 x happy.

Then Chemistry->Steel for cannons, safe from the annoying flanking of Krill's HAs (or indeed iron if he somehow manages to get a city up there). After that, Economics for the free Merchant?

There is a plan to settle west to steal the Sumerian iron with an inland city. Is the settler heading over there going to start that process? It probably makes sense for that one to go where we've already roaded in the east.

We should complete Notre Dame soon for an extra happy bonus. Capital can then build a bank. Gut Shot can squeeze in a university after its grocer.

We have 6 turns of the golden age left now. Before it ends, we can switch back to Nationhood and Theocracy (Mercantilism discussed but not viable right now).

Draft and build rifles galore (plus more cats) then, when Steel is in, max tax and upgrade some cats to cannons and invade.

That will be something like 3 + 1 + 1 + 2/3 + 4/5 turns, around 11-13 turns. Probably towards the latter (or maybe 1 turn longer) since we will lose the Golden Age and Bureaucracy bonuses.

[novice]

Agree that we settle the eastern Dyes city first.

We should draft Riflemen and build Cavalry and Catapults.

[spacemanmf]

We should draft Riflemen and build Cavalry and Catapults.

Ah yes, I was thinking we needed another tech for Cavs but we don't.

[spacemanmf]

Tsk, lurkers posting in the unreadable thread. I demand to know what they are discussing!

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Krill is putting a turn into a tac nuke and will be rush buying it next turn.

[spacemanmf]

Krill is putting a turn into a tac nuke and will be rush buying it next turn.

On the back of a Horse Archer?

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Why not? If it needs a solid rocket booster then a well trained horse can do the job just as well.

[novice]

Playing T164 now.

[novice]

...and played. Nothing much to report, really. Ruff took another city and we completed another Conquistador.



Notre Dame due EOT165. Rifling due EOT166. Sugar due EOT167.

[novice]

Oh, and Ruff is at tech parity. He also has 1000 gold in the bank and 400 eps on us.

If he wanted to he could research Liberalism before us. Not sure why he'd want to do that, though. More likely perhaps that he decides to snag the Economics merchant.